Price of HD monitors

[seanmcleod]

Just curious about this as I don't know a lot (or any) of the technical details of putting together a HD LCD monitor, but I had this question. Hopefully someone can drop some knowledge on me.

How can a company offer a 42 inch TV with 1080p HDMI support for $500, yet it costs significantly more in most cases for a 5.6inch 1280x800 HDMI monitor for film and video applications?

 

[davidschmaus]

Quantity?

 

[memphishills]

Quantity?

From what I've heard it is more so to do with the cost of manufacturing LCDS of the size, with pixel densities that high. I believe it costs a lot more to cram 1920x1080 on something 5.6" big, because all the tech has to be smaller and therefore more expensive. Case and point - apple sells millions of iphone 4s, yet it only has 960x640, so its not a quantity issue. It also has to do with the processing power to show that much information on a screen, and being able to fit all that in there.

 

[Jester2138]

I think the answer is both of the above - quantity of sales and relatively higher expense of manufacturing such high pixel densities.

Plus the fact that cinema people are already used to overpaying for everything.